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Pointing vs Jointing - What's the difference?

pointing | jointing |

As nouns the difference between pointing and jointing

is that pointing is the action of the verb to point while jointing is the act of making a joint.

As a verb pointing

is present participle of lang=en.

pointing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb to point .
  • (usually singular or collective) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to hold them together. This is not strictly speaking correct word to use in this context, mortar would be the correct word, or joint filling. (or perhaps applies in the US only) This term is often misused as meaning mortar or joint filling, as 'repointing' is the action of making good and repairing of joints between stone.
  • The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
  • The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
  • (art) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    jointing

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia jointing) (en noun)
  • The act of making a joint
  • The set of joints so produced
  • The initial grinding of the teeth of a cutting tool, prior to sharpening